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5 million to unsocket new gems, yup I'm a long ways off. Nowhere even close to having best in slot helm or weapon let alone armor. Great gold sink though.

Is it weird, that I was most excited reading about a little extra pickup radius? Guess because it's the first I have read on it. In my downtime I decided to try Torchlight 2 and some aspects of the game just feel right. The pickup radius was a big difference from stock D3. Only level 20 on elite slowly trugging along, so no clue how end game works. The boss fights I have done are excellent and change it up a bit. Still would rather have D3's feel, look, playability, movement and stats. Already have to reroll because I dumped to many points into health/armor. Just hope in next Diablo expansion they will add a lot more randomness to dungeons, and be able to turn off the story and just clear as I please with all bosses still up (with no azmo popups >.< or his concubine).

I am also looking for at least 2 others to group with. I have 4 machines so far, but my friends havn't logged on since the patch. I'm a descently geared monk usually running mlvl 3-5. Organ runs I would like to do over 5, but need to test it one day. Just hit me up in game after 6pm est weekdays.

I went today after work to check. They only sold maybe nine pc titles with no spot for D3 on shelf. Sales person tried to sell me Cata, but instead tried Customer Service to see if any stores in the area had a copy. Then stopped by Best Buy and they can't price match if no Toys R Us even carry the game. All I wanted it for was to have a second account for auctions and stash so no worries. Hmm someone tell Blizz I would pay $10 for more auction slots and stash.

In beta players had their skill menu opened the entire time while playing. I think NV should reset or have a npc in town that will allow the switch of a skill at the loss of 1 stack per skill. All in all it's a great time to be a gamer, companies work hard to make their products better and more enjoyable. Now we just need the itemization of armor pieces redone and hopefully some more ranomness of maps. Still happy with all these new changes out of the blue.

That one person that has perfect mf and the few others with similar gear I feel for. All the others that are complaining about the mf cap couldn't even do act 1 wearing it. My mf set only has 235% w/out follower and I'm happy w/ it. I'll be enjoying the rewards of killing white mobs and champs w/out swapping gear and dieing. From now on i'll be taking every post crying about the cap to mf w/ a grain of salt unless they can post a viable set and not just blues w/ max (probably using a script). I could just imagine the uproar of the swappers if any of the other options were chosen. In my eyes they should be happy (if not using a script) b/c over time it will be 1 less item to swap to. I enjoy ladder play, but until they find a good way to implement it w/out the top 100 being bots I'm fine.

I think this is a step in the right direction. After they patch this patch they have the foundation to do a lot w/ it. Bots will gain very low experiece if they mostly do hell (I could be really wrong on that). Then they can work more on pvp and hopefully making areas more radomized and extra floors to dungeons the higher up in difficulty. They also wouldn't just stop at weapons, best to get it out and worry about armor itemization later. Gear swapping fix should come later after they see how this new system evolves. Very pleased with the patch notes.

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Just don't mess with my gameplay related gear swapping please

Yeah, that's the only thing that has me worried. Switching to my LoH weapon on certain packs or my helm w/ spirit regen. I would love if this new system was like kripp's version of champion levels. Maybe even make it account wide so even your alts can get the bonus just not level it up more. All speculation though till more information comes out. My first time using quote so I hope that I did this right.

I have killed a pack in act 3 w/ mf set just to try it, doable but not worth the effort. So I stuck to act 2 when I was playing. Right now just posting gear up on ah I've collected and selling the gold on rmah every 3 days. Can't wait for 1.0.4 though, but until then doesn't seem worth it to farm so been having fun in other things.

Yup it's a bug and they know about it. Same happened to me after I killed a champ pack, looted and started to ID. I never got to see how the ilvl 63 sword turned out like u did. I put in a ticket and no they will not give any loot back that was dropped. It had happened to me 4 times before then so I was used to it. First time I noticed item rollbacks though. This happened about 2 weeks ago I guess and hasn't happned since, but lately I've been gettin really bad ms in act 3. Weird lag spikes and the every annoying rubberbanding a lot more it seems. I always think servers are being attacked in these situations so I just take a break. Why I'm on here atm

I was very excited for this game for a long time. Got most of my friends into the beta and as release is getting closer I'm losing my interest in the game :(. I don't know what it is, but i think it has to deal with disappointment. I really wanted to pre-order and get in the game early to have a head start, but I think at this time I'm just waiting for friends reviews after release. I started my mmo career with WoW and the grind. I was over a friends house as they were attempting 1st boss in BWL and I was hooked (always loved dragons and mythical age). I really enjoyed the pvp system back then and actually knowing who's who on your server. No clue how WoW is now since I've been away for so long. I tried Rift for a bit made some friends but at the beginning, balance in pvp was all screwed up. Any clue on how balance will work out in end game GW2? Sorry for my rant and I hope it does well because it looks amazing.

Also to point out barbs can generate fury and keep their frenzy stack going but our sweeping winds drops.

For solo monk after the nerf, I hate to say it, but drop down an act and see how you perform w/ conviction w/ overawe. After changing to that mantra solo'n became easier for me. In groups it also helps to down treasure goblins. With your stats i would suggest more hp (around 40k), more armor and the rest looks fine. I also agree w/ post, try out a shield for tough packs, high dex resist and they can come w/ 10% crit as well.

Know clue if this will help, but I'll give some of my opinions. As for what to look for on gear Gloves/Boots can roll high dex and Chest/Pants can roll high vit. Knowing this u can lose a stat in one area but gain overall. For gloves I search for atk speed/crit and high dex 160+ (slowly drop stats in ah till u find what u are looking for, if u don't find just don't buy) and choice of resist. Boots just high dex 160+ and movespeed w/ both resists (searching for monk boots is horrible) vit is always a positive but never a must. Chest and pants I look for high vit, 2-3 sockets (1-2 for pants), both resists and hope to find some w/ dex. Rings i go for atk speed/crit, 1 resist, vit or dex. Amulet i go for dex 90+, resist, and crit (I still use my old 500 LoH neck in act 3 on Ghom) crit bonus would be nice, but yeah... don't bother unless u find. Helm I go for dex, socket, crit , 1 resist and again vit is always a plus. Belt/Shoulders I try to fill in some gaps that I have, for me it's 2 resists vit/dex. Also if u can, try to get 2 pieces w/ pickup radius.

I was able to clear acts 3/4 before the patch with a much defensive build and stats. I've been slowly dropping resists (arcane is starting to hurt again) but raising my damage considerably. The day of patch my build was deadly reach w/ keen eye and mantra of evasion w/ hard target. 950 resists 1100 LoH w/ only 19k damage and 22% melee damage reduction. Now my build is back to my fun build I used lvl'n w/ the addition of cyclone rune for sweeping winds (had to up crit rate above 25% to start seeing improvement over blade storm). Thunderclap on Fists of Thunder is great w/ the teleport for those pesky goblins. Now that the mobs don't do as much damage I enjoy using Mantra of Conviction w/ overawe. I don't enjoy dw'n act 3/4 but u can. Try to get a fast offhand w/ high LoH, crit bonus to buff your main hand damage. Main hand I try to get a semi fast weapon w/ highest damage i can afford w/ good dex and socket. Shield can get 10% crit, resists, dex/vit and block (u can block everything other than what u stand in).

To start act 3 I suggest 800 resist, 6000+ armor, 40k health and 35-40k damage. As I stated earlier it's not all 100% to use same gear for all. On Ghom I use my old tanky shield 20% block chance good rolls on vit/dex and both resists w/ my LoH weapon and neck. It seems better for me to try and do good constant damage w/out having to run around too much. My damage is only 39k self buffed but drops to 22k w/ tankier gear. I agree w/ other posts, I also use the enchantress. Hope this helps.

I still think they should up the difficulty of act 1 and just smooth out some damage spikes from certain mobs. Playing as a monk hasn't been easy, but I'm able to do 5 stack Siegebreaker and finally can tank lickers !!! For those of you that give up easy, this isn't the game for you. Higher gear dropping in lower acts was supposed to be in game from the start. Except for act 3/4 as they stated. For the one that farmed goblins in softcore, that is not the way to do it. HC farm goblins because it's the safest way when you only have one life. To me it seems like everyone is just looking for the easy way out and since the stupid real money auction house is involved players are coming up with the stupidest ways to farm gear ( killing same mob for hours on end that spawn from tower in act 2 REALLY!?).
At the same time it's ruining the players experience that are just playing the game. I was having fun on a demon hunter alt in act 4, i killed every vase i came across like usual with nothing dropping. Then I remembered the patch notes. If they decided to nerf the gold that drops is fine, but for nothing to drop, just take the vases out of the game so I don't waste my time. This is a game, it's meant to be fun. After I was able to 5 stack Kulle/Belial i took a break and messed around on a barb. Same thing after I pounded my head against a wall for 5 stack Siege. I am messing around on alts. My tip is don't go all in on one character, take a break and enjoy yourself. This is my opinion and not to offend anyone, but after seeing nerf here nerf there QQ everywhere I had to get this off my chest.